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Adadan, Emine; Akaygun, Sevil; Sanyal, Amitav – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2017
This interdisciplinary scientific inquiry lesson specifically utilizes the 5E learning cycle to engage high school students in an investigation on size-dependent properties of matter. In particular, this inquiry lesson focuses on a biologically relevant phenomenon, namely accessibility to a pharmaceutical drug with respect to the size of the pill.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, High School Students, Scientific Concepts, Science Experiments
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Kapucu, Serkan; Simsek, Mertkan; Öçal, Mehmet Fatih – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2017
This study explores finding the areas of polygons with a smartphone light sensor. A square and an irregular pentagon were chosen as our polygons. During the activity, the LED light was placed at the vertices of our polygons, and the illuminance values of this LED light were detected by the smartphone light sensor. The smartphone was placed on a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Steele, Adrienne; Warny, Sophie – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2013
"Palynology" is the study of fossil pollen and spores, and these tiny grains can provide fundamental information about past climates on Earth. Among their many unique and useful properties, pollen and spores are composed of some of the most chemically resistant organic compounds found in nature. They are also produced in vast quantities…
Descriptors: Climate, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Earth Science